Editorial Reviews:
Synopsis
Kay Kenyon, noted for her science fiction world-building, hasbr /in this new series created her most vivid and compelling society, thebr /Universe Entire. In a land-locked galaxy that tunnels through our own, thebr /Entire is a bizarre and seductive mix of long-lived quasi-human and alienbr /beings gathered under a sky of fire, called the bright. A land of wonders,br /the Entire is sustained by monumental storm walls and an exotic,br /never-ending river. Over all, the elegant and cruel Tarig rule supreme.br /Into this rich milieu is thrust Titus Quinn, formerbr /star pilot, bereft of his beloved wife and daughter who are assumed dead bybr /everyone on earth except Quinn. Believing them trapped in a parallelbr /universe--one where he himself may have been imprisoned--he returns to thebr /Entire without resources, language, or his memories of that former life. Hebr /is assisted by Anzi, a woman of the Chalin people, a Chinese culture copiedbr /from our own universe and transformed by the kingdom of the bright.br /Learning of his daughter's dreadful slavery, Quinn swears to free her. Tobr /do so, he must cross the unimaginable distances of the Entire in disguise,br /for the Tarig are lying in wait for him. As Quinn's memories return, hebr /discovers why. Quinn's goal is to penetrate the exotic culture of thebr /Entire--to the heart of Tarig power, the fabulous city of the Ascendancy,br /to steal the key to his family's redemption. But willbr /his daughter and wife welcome rescue? Ten years of brutality have forcedbr /compromises on everyone. What Quinn will learn to his dismay is what hisbr /own choices were, long ago, in the Universe Entire. He will also discoverbr /why a fearful multiverse destiny is converging on him and what he mustbr /sacrifice to oppose the coming storm.br / This is high-concept SF written on the scale of Philip Jose Farmer'sbr /Riverworld, Roger Zelazny's Amber Chronicles, and Dan Dimmons's Hyperion.
